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Saraceno's dazzling installations synthesize science and art, architecture and art, industry and nature Argentinian installation artist Tom's Saraceno (born 1973) combines research on fossil fuel alternatives, the architecture of spider webs and aeronautical engineering to create large-scale interac... Read More about Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)

In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel. They cannot bear the presence of other birds and begin... Read More about Living as a Bird

An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living A common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the “stages of grief,” with “acceptance” as the final stage in the process. But is it necessary to leave death behind, to stop dwelling o... Read More about Our Grateful Dead: Stories of Those Left Behind (Posthumanities #65)

A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory How do humans study the complex worlds of animals without imposing their own societal and scientific gaze upon them? The biologist Amotz Zahavi stakes the controversial claim that Arabian babblers are said to ra... Read More about The Dance of the Arabian Babbler: Birth of an Ethological Theory (Univocal)

“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the Foreword Is it all right to urina... Read More about What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (Posthumanities #38)

Virginia Woolf, to whom university admittance had been forbidden, watched the universities open their doors. Though she was happy that her sisters could study in university libraries, she cautioned women against joining the procession of educated men and being co-opted into protecting a “civilizatio... Read More about Women Who Make a Fuss: The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf (Univocal)